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CSIRO Plant Industry newsletter.

CSIRO Plant Industry’s newsletter keeps you up to date with our range of plant, agricultural, horticultural, forestry and native vegetation research.

Issued quarterly and emailed to subscribers it is also available here online.

Issue 29 - Autumn 2010:

Brachypodium distachyon
Brachypodium: the small plant making a big impact on root research

Brachypodium distachyon may be a tiny plant but it is having a big impact on cereal productivity research at CSIRO and around the world.
Blue-green aphid on a lupin stem
Closing in on aphid resistance

In the search for effective, broad-spectrum resistance to aphids in a range of legume crops, CSIRO researchers are trying to isolate major aphid resistance genes and identify the key genes that are activated when the plant recognises an aphid attack.
Leaf
The fastest Omega-3 in science

CSIRO researchers have developed a faster, cheaper way to assemble complex gene groups to make better food crops.
Grass
Time ticking on the need for phosphorous use efficiency

Water and oil are often depicted as the two limiting resources on which our future depends. However a less well-known resource, phosphorous, is just as important to ensuring our agricultural productivity. According to scientists, we are quickly running out of the 'cheap' sources of phosphorus that we use presently to make fertilisers.
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